Shoe-buffer



L. J. NELSON.

SHOE BUFFER. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 2. I920.

Patented Nov. 29, 1921;

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR ONE-HALF TO BENJAMIN A. METCALF, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

SHOE-BUFFER.

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To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LnoN J. NELSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Los Angeles, in the county ofLos Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoecation.

My invention relates to polishing and buffing devices, and it is the object thereof to providea shoe-polishing brush or buffer having upon a single handle or holder a pad with facings of different character which may be used alternatively, and thus furnish in the one device, polishing or bufiing surfaces suitable for use not only for the initial or rough polishing of shoes, but also for the final rubblng or buffing necessary to produce the desired lustrous or glossy surface. A.

reversing or for detaching andrenewing the same. I

In the illustrated structure I providea: back or handle formed integrally of wood or the like, and comprismg an oblong ap.

proximately rectangular body-portion 1, the

bottom face thereof being flat, the ends being beveled adjoining saidv bottom face, the sides of the body being slightly grooved or;

hollowed longitudinally, the upper side of the body being slightly convex and having at the ends thereof shoulders or offset faces 5 parallel with the bottom face, and there being in the upper side of the body a central longitudinal groove 6 which at one end is widened into a rounded recess 7,'substantially as indicated. To the flat bottom face of the handle-body 4 there is permanently attached a thick sheet or pad 8 of felt or like material, the end portions of the pad being rounded off at the lower side, so as to merge into the beveled end-faces of the body 4:. Near one end of the groove 6 in the Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Nov. 29, 1921.

Application filed- March 2, 19 20. Seria1 No..362,733.

upper face of the handle a staple 9 is driven therein, and to the loop formed bylthe protruding portion of the staple there is pivotally connected the ends of a U-shaped swivelplate 10. .A hook 11 has the shank thereof held rotatably in the central portion of the plate 10, thereby. forming swivel connection therewith. Near the opposite end of the groove 6 a pin 12 is secured in the body,

as indicated, said pin having a rounded head and belng adapted for detachable engagement with a loop 13 formed at one end of a helical coil spring 14. The opposite end of i said spring is formed into a hook 15. The facing-strips or Work-engaging members of the bufier are detachably connected with the hooks 11 and 15 by means of Ll-shaped metal clips 16, the ends of the facing-strips 17 and I 18 being clamped between the sides of said clips and further retained therein by series of indentations 19, made therein as indicated. Each of the clips has a central open-- ing through which the hooks may be inserted to attach the same thereto.

The facing-strips may be of any desired smoothing of shoe-polishing materials, after the same have been applied to the surface with a dauber. The other facing-strip, 17,

is preferably of soft fabric, which is desirable for use in the final polishing, and is new ally necessary to secure the desired gloss or luster of the polished surface, as the wool face, after becoming slightly soiled with the v polish, will produce only a relatively dull finish. Both the wool and fabric strips may be held at the ends and attached to the hooks 11 and 15 by a single pair of the clips 16, but it is preferable to attach the same to sep arate pairs of the clips, so that the strips are independently renewable. The latter arrangement also enables both sides of the fabricstrip to'be used by reversing the sides thereof relative to the hooks and the wool strip, and the strip thus used a longertime without renewal.

The facing-strips 17 and 18 are of such length that the same may extend around both ends of the handle-body 4:, covering the pad 8, and the ends of the strip resting on the offset faces or shoulders 5, as shown. The parts are so proportioned that the spring "14: must be elongated to engage the loop 13 with the pin 14, and the spring thereby holdsv the facing strips under tension, and compensates for slight variations, in the length of the strips. To reverse the facingstrips it is merely necessary to detach the loop 13"fromthe pin 12, swing the facing strips around to a position such as shown by dotted lines in F ig.3, then rotate the swiveled hook 11 so that the desired face of the strips will be presented, then replace the strips around beneath the pad 8, and reattach the spring-loop .13 to the 3 in. the back of the handle enables the spring to be readily grasped with the lingers, for attaching the loop to the pin and for detaching the same therefrom, while the entire body of the spring lies below the upper surface of the handle, asindicated inFig. 1.

Now,having described my invention what pin 12. The recess 7 I claim and desire to. secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A shoe bufier comprising a handlebody, .a hook swiveled to saidibody near one end thereof, a hook yieldingly connectible with said body near the other end thereof,

clamp-members detachably engageable with said hooks, and facing-strips having the ends thereof held by said clamp-members and extending from end to end of the body across one face thereof.

2. A shoe bufler comprising a handle body, a swiveled member connected with said-body near one end thereof, a plurality site the swiveled member.

LEON'J. NELSON. 

